It is, in other words, a credulous hodge-podge of all the older witch and devil tales that could be packed into its duodecimo pages; tales made vivid by its startling frontispiece and the crude but awful woodcuts that adorn its text.

"We added insulation and thermal windows" -- wow, how green! it's this kind of credulous hackery about money that got us into the real estate mess in the first place, so next time, how about some actual cost figures? and really are we to be smiling at this huge bubble and it's crash because it has this green-silver lining? are you out of your m.f. mind?

The word believe is a problematic one today, in part because it has gradually changed its meaning from being the language of certainty so deep that I could give my heart to it, to the language of uncertainty so shallow that only the "credulous" would rely on it.

I find it incredible that the NY Times is repeating Republican talking points about “questions” on Obama’s patriotism with the same kind of credulous naivete they repeated the swift-boat attacks on John Kerry, and the Bush Administration’s blithe pronouncements about Iraq and their lying denials that they had outed a spy to your own reporters!